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Genesis 41:36-38
New English Translation
Genesis 41:36-38
New English Translation
36 This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”[a]
37 This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.[b] 38 So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph,[c] one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”[d]
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- Genesis 41:36 tn Heb “and the land will not be cut off in the famine.”
- Genesis 41:37 tn Heb “and the matter was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.”
- Genesis 41:38 tn Heb “like this,” but the referent could be misunderstood to be a man like that described by Joseph in v. 33, rather than Joseph himself. For this reason the proper name “Joseph” has been supplied in the translation.
- Genesis 41:38 tn The rhetorical question expects the answer “No, of course not!”
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